Green Next

So you want to run a company, need funds, searching venture capitals and you are just in a quandary “what to do”? Here is the solution Angel Investors . The Angel Investors as name suggest are sort of angel like people wealthy, retired, looking for some new place to invest where growth prospects are very high. The typical investment-return cycle for Angel Investors are about three to seven years. The investment part of Angel investor is not so wide spread( about 10% of whole equity) in any business. The Angel Investors may invest in a company yet to be formed, a product yet to be conceptualized in market, a service yet to be deployed. This type of money injection is generally called as seed money in Angel Investors’ part. The Angel Investors can also support a successfully company needing funds for some special venture or a concern purely engaged in research based activities(health, technologies and other) and also need not a higher assurance of returns in short time period. (more…)

The Green Investing is a new concept defined as “investing In the Ventures or projects which are environment caring in any of the ways.” We can learn about them, like a firm manufacturing biodegradable washing products, another one dealing the research and development of environment friendly technologies or a group of people working in wild life, are Green Investing firms. Green Investing is more being sought after by the venture capitalists, as the technological and research shift is towards the Green Technologies.

A prominent Green Investing firm of Vinod Khosla Founder of Sun Micro systems has already put some bet on Green Ventures amounting to $10 millions. Other groups in this track of Green Investing are Environment Investment Partners a company primarily invests in European environmental projects or the western companies working their. Initially it has made investment in the technologies pertaining to waste water treatment and Biodegradable plastics.

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